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Definition of Brutism
1. n. The nature or characteristic qualities or actions of a brute; extreme stupidity, or beastly vulgarity.
Definition of Brutism
1. Noun. Behaviour or action characteristic of a brute ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Brutism
1. the state of being brutal [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Brutism
Literary usage of Brutism
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Theology: Explained and Defended in a Series of Sermons by Timothy Dwight (1846)
"I will pass by the Saturnalia, in which Rome sunk, for a week every year, into
the coarsest and most vulgar brutism, and all distinction and decency were ..."
2. History of the Rise and Fall of the Slave Power in America by Henry Wilson (1877)
"... because we give only three hundred dollars apiece, on an average, to deliver
these poor oppressed beings from a condition of brutism. ..."
3. The Advocate of Peace by American Peace Society (1902)
"The brute is so dominant in man, whether he came from the " dust of the ground,"
as stated by Moses, or from " brutism," as claimed by Darwin, ..."
4. History of the Antislavery Measures of the Thirty-seventh and Thirty-eighth by Henry Wilson (1865)
"... because we give only three hundred dollars apiece, on an average, to deliver
these poor oppressed beings from a condition of brutism. ..."
5. America and Europe by Adam G. De Gurowski (1857)
"Issuing from a state of barbarism, nay from that of savage brutism, in which
twofold oppression and tyranny have kept them for long centuries, ..."
6. Christian Missions: Their Agents, and Their Results by Thomas William M. Marshall (1864)
"... heroic spirit of the Pequod is shrunk into the torpor of reasoning brutism.
All the vice of the original is left : all its place in English families as ..."
7. Christ, Christianity and the Bible by Isaac Massey Haldeman (1922)
"... maliciously suggested new difficulties, raised barriers against its own
research, and prostrating itself in the name of mere brutism, worshipped nature ..."
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